{"id":29184,"date":"2025-10-19T21:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=29184"},"modified":"2025-10-19T21:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:48:50","slug":"will-the-pakistan-afghanistan-peace-agreement-hold-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=29184","title":{"rendered":"Will the Pakistan-Afghanistan peace agreement hold? | Conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The neighbours have agreed to an immediate ceasefire after a week of cross-border violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to stop fighting, after talks in the Qatari capital, Doha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cross-border violence in the past week or so marked the most serious escalation since 2021, when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Islamabad accuses Kabul of harbouring fighters from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, an armed group that\u2019s stepped up attacks in Pakistan. Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban leaders deny the accusations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mediators say the foundations have been laid for long-term peace. But what are the guarantees? And how does the conflict play out regionally?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Javaid Ur-Rahman \u2013 Investigative journalist and parliamentary correspondent for The Nation, a Pakistani daily newspaper<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Elizabeth Threlkeld \u2013 Senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Obaidullah Baheer \u2013 Adjunct lecturer at the American University of Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 19 Oct 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">19 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbours have agreed to an immediate ceasefire after a week of cross-border violence. Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to stop fighting, after talks in the Qatari capital, Doha. Cross-border violence in the past week or so marked the most serious escalation since 2021, when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Islamabad accuses Kabul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[5520,267,1562,150,17268,2523],"class_list":{"0":"post-29184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-agreement","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-hold","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pakistanafghanistan","13":"tag-peace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}